Is Google too big?
Is Google's share of our attention and data too dominant? We ask Eric Schmidt
Business Daily · BBC World Service
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Show Notes
Is the search engine's share of our attention and our data too dominant, and should regulators step in and break their business up? Ed Butler gets to pitch these and other questions to Google's former chairman Eric Schmidt.
Google, along with other Silicon Valley leviathans such as Facebook, Amazon and Apple, faces increasing criticism from commentators, regulators and politicians for its monopolistic power. Among them is the tech journalist Franklin Foer of The Atlantic magazine, who tells Ed that the political tide is now turning against big tech in the US.
(Picture: The Google logo is reflected in the eye of a girl; Credit: Chris Jackson/Getty Images)